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No. 770,491. PATENTED SEPT. 20, 1904.

0. W. BILDT. APPARATUS FOR THE CONTINUOUS FEEDING AND DISTRIBUTING OF MATERIAL IN GAS PRODUCERS, FURNACES, 8m.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 14, 1904.

NO MODEL.

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CARL WILHELM BILDT, OF STOGKHOLM, SWEDEN.

APPARATUS FOR THE CONTINUOUS FEEDING AND DISTRIBUTING 0F MATERIAL IN GAS-PRODUCERS,

FURNACES, &c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,491, dated September 20, 1904,

Application filed May 14:, 1904. Serial No. 208,039. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL WILHELM BILDT, a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, and a resident of Vasagatan 8, Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, have invented certain-new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Continuous Feeding and Distributing of Material in Gas-Producers, Furnaces,

and the Like, of which the followingis a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has reference to apparatus for the continuous feeding and distributing of ore, coal, peat, sawdust, bark, waste wood, and other material in gas-producers, furnaces, and the like. 1

It has been found in practice that sawdust and like material is very liable to form an arch in the feeding receptacle or hopper, especially when the sawdust is moist, and hitherto it has been necessary to force down the material in the hopper by means of an iron bar or the like in order to feed it down upon the rotary distributing-disk of the gas-producer or other apparatus being fed. This forcing down of the material must be performed very often in order that the continuity of feed may not be interrupted. This causesmuch labor and extra expense; and it is the object of this invention to provide improved means whereby these inconveniences are obviated.

In order that my invention may be readily understood and carried into effect, I will describe the same fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a feeding and distributing device embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the dis tributing-disk.

According to this invention the distributing-disk a is provided with one OI'JIIOIB upright pins or arms b, rigidly attached thereto and rotating with said disk. By this arrangement the dust is caused to fall from the hopper onto the disk ca, from which it is continuously fed over the circumference thereof into the gas-producer or furnace. Wood fuel of different kinds-such as stubs, pieces of wood, bark, or the likethat are liable to stick or look themselves within the hopper are, owing to the length of the pins or arms, caused to fall down upon the disk and to be continuously fed over the circumference thereof into the gas-producer.

The drawings show two pins of different size attached to the feeding-disk; but it is obvious that a greater or less'number of pins can be employed, if preferred. The pins instead of being arranged in a vertical position may obviously be inclined, if desired.

The disk at is of course rotated by any known means.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y In apparatus for distributing ore, coal, peat, sawdust, bark, waste wood and the like in gasproducers, furnaces and the like, the combination of a feeding-hopper, a rotary distributing-disk placed beneath the lower opening of the said hopper, and one or more solitary pins or arms carried by the said disk at a distance from its axis, said pins or arms having a sufficient length to cause the material that may be sticking or locked above the disk to fall down thereupon during its rotation, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CARL WILHELM BILDT. Witnesses:

ERNST SVANGVIST, AUG. SoRENsEN. 

